Queen Rearing Essentials

In this post-varroa, post-Colony Collapse Syndrome era, beekeepers everywhere are developing localized, mite-resistant bee stocks. Key to this is their ability to raise queen cells and queens. Bee Culture/American Bee Journal author Larry Connor describes a very successful queen rearing method using Starter and Finisher colonies.

The book is organized as follows:

• Queen and Colony Evaluation
• Queen Marking and Clipping
• Biology of Cell Production
• Cell Starting
• Making Queen Cells
• Cell Development
• Cell Finishing
• Drone Production
• Nucleus Production/Cells
• Evaluating New Queens
• Cells and Queens Only - A look at a large-scale queen operation

Detailed and practical manual. A must-have for every beekeeper! Filled with astounding photographs.